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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Blitters for the 1040ST
Message-ID: <2785@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 16:02:40 GMT
References: <8905151240.AA06613@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <8905151240.AA06613@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:
>Yesterday, I brought in a 1040ST that had problems with the internal drive.
>When the box was opened up, I was surprised to see a spot market 'BLITTER' on
>the motherboard.

The latest revisions of the 1040 boards have room for a BLITTER;
installation is easy (desolder the holes; solder in a socket; change 2
jumpres, run...); the hard thing is to get the Blitter chip. Dealers can
order it as "replacement part" for Megas (that's how i got mine).

Installation in an 520 ST reqires a little more: Rocke Computer
(Germany) make a little board that fits "under" the MPU and has a socket
for the Blitter chip.

hase
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